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SolidWorks Products: SolidWorks Simulation
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SolidWorks Simulation is a full-featured finite element stress analysis (FEA) package that runs as part of SolidWorks Premium. Specifically tailored for designers and engineers who are not specialists in design validation, SolidWorks Simulation helps improve product quality by indicating how SolidWorks models will behave before they are built. Go beyond simple hand calculations by verifying your intuitions and study the real-world performance of different design alternatives without ever leaving the SolidWorks window. SolidWorks Simulation provides simple, accurate design analysis that leads to better products by giving designers a safety net for catching errors. Designers are free to innovate, secure in the knowledge that they won't pass costly mistakes down the line. Complete integration with SolidWorks Simulation users can perform design analysis, simulation and optimization directly from their SolidWorks user interface. SolidWorks Simulation enables faster, less costly, and more optimized product development, as well as more in-depth examination of product performance than would ever be possible using even the most detailed prototypes. Fully embedded inside the SolidWorks interface, SolidWorks Simulation utilizes the SolidWorks FeatureManager® and many of the same mouse and keyboard commands, so anyone who can design a part in SolidWorks can analyze it without having to learn a new interface. SolidWorks Simulation contains the most frequently used design validation tools, offering stress, strain, and displacement analysis capabilities for both parts and assemblies at a very affordable price. With SolidWorks Simulation you can:
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Static stress analysis enables you to see how your model responds to loading, and how much stress and deformation occurs within the model. This allows you to evaluate how real-life design conditions are going to affect the performance and durability of your products within the SolidWorks environment. |
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SolidWorks Flow Simulation |
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| Trend Tracker |
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| Optimization |
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| Thermal Analysis |
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| Fatigue Analysis |
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| Buckling Analysis |
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| Frequency Analysis |
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| Drop Test Analysis |
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| Pressure Vessel Analysis |
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| Nonlinear Analysis |
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Datasheets
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Datasheet: SolidWorks Simulation 2012 SolidWorks Simulation is a complete suite of structural, functional, and flow analysis applications for every designer in the product development process. The software is easy to use, yet powerful enough to tackle the most complex design issues. It helps you to predict the performance of your design under real-world operating conditions and to detect problems and correct them before prototyping, tooling, and production. |
White Papers
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White Paper: Streamlining Design with Real-World Vibration Analysis Mechanical designers often use vibration simulation as a timesaving and cost-efficient alternative to the traditional approach of building, testing, modifying, and retesting their designs. By identifying the factors that influence the response to a dynamic load in a computer model, designers have the data needed to make the right improvements before they even cut a single piece of metal. In addition to greatly decreasing the number of actual prototypes required, vibration analysis also significantly reduces the costs involved. |
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White Paper: Solve Complex Simulations to Enhance Product Performance Engineering successful, innovative products in today's competitive environment requires simulation power. The ability to analyze the multifaceted physical performance characteristics of a design before making a prototype can substantially increase productivity. Companies need robust simulation tools to efficiently overcome time, budget, and quality demands. SolidWorks® Simulation delivers powerful simulation capabilities that can solve complex analysis problems, helping you design better, more innovative products faster and more cost-effectively. |
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White Paper: Design to Prevent Fatigue In 1954, two crashes involving the world's first commercial airliner, the de Havilland Comet, brought the words "metal fatigue" to newspaper headlines and into long-lasting public consciousness. The aircraft, also one of the first to have a pressurized cabin, had square windows. Pressurization combined with repeated flight loads caused cracks to form in the corners of the windows, and those cracks widened over time until the cabins fell apart. As well as being a human tragedy in which 68 people died, the Comet disasters were a wake-up call to engineers trying to create safe, strong designs. |
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White Paper: Preventing Mechanical Fatigue Fatigue is the most common cause of catastrophic failure in metals and can occur in other materials as well. SolidWorks® software provides a fast, reliable, and cost-effective way to predict and resolve fatigue-related problems before they happen. |
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White Paper: SolidWorks Software Optimization Optimization is the calculation of weight, stress, cost, deflection, natural frequencies, and temperature factors, which are dependent on variables such as dimensions, loads and restraints, materials, and manufacturing requirements. The challenge is that we seldom know these inputs at the early stages of the design process. This paper reviews some key concepts in optimization, tools now available for FEA-driven optimization, and then focuses on how design engineers can get the most out of optimization in their day-to-day work. |
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White Paper: SolidWorks Software Optimization What is motion simulation? What problems can it solve? How can it benefit the product design process? This paper addresses some of these issues and looks at sample problems that motion simulation can solve. It also presents real-life applications of motion simulation used as a CAE design tool. |
SolidWorks Simulation (2 days)
This course is designed to make SolidWorks users more productive quickly with SolidWorks Simulation. It offers a comprehensive hands-on training on the applications of linear stress analysis using SolidWorks Simulation, and best practices. Analysis features are discussed using an integrated approach of the Simulation software from within the SolidWorks environment.
This course is designed to make SolidWorks users more productive quickly with SolidWorks Simulation. It offers a comprehensive hands-on training on the applications of linear stress analysis using SolidWorks Simulation, and best practices. Analysis features are discussed using an integrated approach of the Simulation software from within the SolidWorks environment.
SolidWorks Simulation Professional (1 day)
This course is designed to make SolidWorks users more productive quickly with the analysis features included in SolidWorks Simulation Professional. You will explore thermal analysis, natural frequency analysis, optimization, fatigue and drop tests.
This course is designed to make SolidWorks users more productive quickly with the analysis features included in SolidWorks Simulation Professional. You will explore thermal analysis, natural frequency analysis, optimization, fatigue and drop tests.
SolidWorks Flow Simulation (2 days)
This class is designed for users who would like to become productive faster; this introductory course offers hands-on training on the use of SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The two-day training program provides an in-depth coverage of the basics of turbulent fluid flow analysis, in addition to covering meshing concerns, modeling concerns, post-processing, available options and preferences.
This class is designed for users who would like to become productive faster; this introductory course offers hands-on training on the use of SolidWorks Flow Simulation. The two-day training program provides an in-depth coverage of the basics of turbulent fluid flow analysis, in addition to covering meshing concerns, modeling concerns, post-processing, available options and preferences.
SolidWorks Simulation Premium (2 days)
This course is designed to extend the user’s knowledge of the SolidWorks Simulation tool to include the use of dynamix analysis tools, for time-dependent, frequency dependent and random vibration dynamic situations. The use of nonlinear material types and nonlinear material models.
This course is designed to extend the user’s knowledge of the SolidWorks Simulation tool to include the use of dynamix analysis tools, for time-dependent, frequency dependent and random vibration dynamic situations. The use of nonlinear material types and nonlinear material models.
SolidWorks Motion (1 day)
This class is designed for users who would like to become productive quickly in using SolidWorks Motion. This course will teach you how to use the simulation package to study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of SolidWorks assembly models. The course provides both essential and advanced sessions on the basics of building, simulating and refining a mechanical design system.
This class is designed for users who would like to become productive quickly in using SolidWorks Motion. This course will teach you how to use the simulation package to study the kinematics and dynamic behavior of SolidWorks assembly models. The course provides both essential and advanced sessions on the basics of building, simulating and refining a mechanical design system.
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